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| Monday, 13 April 2009 11:09 |
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First on my thoughts is that I saw "I Love You, Man" last night and someone whom I had known a while back, just as an acquaintance and then dropped off running into, popped up on the screen, one Sarah Burns, and that was awesome. I am wicked happy for her and that things are progressing and she is blowing up. So you should check out that film, because it is a really funny film, but her in it as well, as she is a really nice person and hilarious actress. What has been on my mind these last few months? Creating rather than waiting. I have begun to push myself to write more and more. As projects do not fling themselves at me like I have a large gravitational pull, I have decided that the more good pieces I can create to put myself in the more chance I have to be in stuff I will enjoy and will be able to be put out there for people to watch. There is a screenplay that I have been working on forever with a friend of mine and I am hoping the script will be ready sometime in the very near future. As it is a feature length script, with the need for a budget, not huge but not tiny either, we will pitch it to various whomevers and hope someone bites. It is an interesting concept, an intriguing script, and if we could somehow pull off getting it made and I could play the man character, oooooh it would be fun. It is a dramatic script and is different than most of the other writing projects I have thrown myself into. I have a dark comedic musical I am working on (the book), and a number of sketches for my improv team's new Web site (Ghost Fight Improv dot com), and a one-man show I have just started. Yes there seems to be work being done out there, despite the trying times, but I also do not seem to have my foot in the right doors at the moment so it is time to take matters more into my own hands. Hopefully, another feature comedic script will also be in the works in the very near future. Much writing, but if I can focus, hopefully you will be laughing and crying with and at me more in the nearest of futures. Other things that have been on my mind...I wish people were not so isolated these days. I get on an elevator and no one looks at each other; no one makes eye contact. People usually look at the number that tells us what floor the elevator is passing by, and more recently, people just look at the floor. I looked at the floor of an elevator the other day, I have to say it is really not that interesting. No cool designs. Nothing embedded to be dug up and then extracted to turn into dinosaurs on remote islands. Just a boring floor. When we walk outside, rarely do we make eye contact. On the subway (NYC), no one looks at anybody else. I do and I feel weird. I look and see the types of shoes people wear. I look at couples and see how they are relating. I see the man or woman reading a book or taking care of a child and it is fascinating. But I sometimes feel like I am the only one who notices. We isolate because we feel weird connecting with others these days. If I make eye contact with someone on a subway I definitely turn away or I feel awkward. Sometimes I'll nod hello. It is a lost art, connecting with others. We need more of it. Not in a rude sexual way, or a sketchy-man-on-the-subway way, but in a "hey, we all live here, we are people, we are a society, a community" kind of way. We'd be happier if we connected more, I think. Maybe I am just rambling. I once had a class and we were reminded to look up as we are walking, every so often, and I was amazed at what I was missing--because apparently I never looked up to see the tops of buildings or to see the sky. I do not know if we remember to do that, if we remember to look out beyond the world right within arms reach, or inside our heads as we think about ourselves. We should do that more. |
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